In 1940, as FDR maintained his stranglehold on the executive branch, comedienne Gracie Allen ran as the ersatz insurgent candidate of the Surprise Party and released Gracie Allen For President, a book spelling out her stances on the issues of the day.

From then on, Fox wrote gags and sketches and his material was used by the greatest American comics including George Burns, Red Skelton, Gracie Allen, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Spike Jones, Doris Day, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby and Jackie Gleason.

Charley McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Patricia Morrison, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Ginny Simms, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Canter and Red Skelton, just to name a few, were among the celebrities I saw at the canteen.

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